“The interesting thing I realized writing the 'X-Men' is I always had a...” — Chris Claremont Quote

The interesting thing I realized writing the 'X-Men' is I always had a sense of where I was going.

We figured the audience would want good stories, great art, wonderful characters, people you could fall in love with that we would immediately put through hell.

All good communal storytelling comes from the sagas and arguments within the writers room.

A lot of people didn't like the 'Fantastic Four' for the first year and a half. It took a certain measure of time for me to find my feet in terms of what I wanted to do with the concept.

No matter how good of a ball player you were, you can't keep going forever. You're not going to be able to hit .300 when you're 60. You still look around and you think, 'This is weird. Have I missed something?' Well, yeah, you have.

The interesting thing about my character Sylar is that my strengths as an actor seemed to go completely against the shape of a character in the shadow.

That's been a pretty interesting thing, visiting schools and performing and doing songwriting talks and stuff.

Tension is all about, 'Why is this taking so long?' The interesting thing about that is that it's also the tension of comedy. The tension of drama and comedy is similar, and that's why usually you can get a big laugh in a really tense moment because people need that release.

You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an audience, it's one to one.